The Philosophy of e-Estonia

Aet Rahe

12.04.2016

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My background

• Currenty - enterpreneur • consultanting on preparing, funding, managing and delivering ICT

solutions • Supporting preparation of cybersecurity cPPP with EU COM

• Latest position • head State Information Systems department @ Ministry of

Economic Affairs and Communications (=Deputy government CIO) • IT policy making (Digital Agenda 2020; Cyber Security Strategy 2017) & IT • investment management

• Hands-on-experience from software development industry • Business Unit manager at the biggest software development house in

Estonia – Nortal

• Education: • Masters of E-governance Technologies and Services (2016) • Masters in Psychology (2007)

Preface: Basic Principles

Trust your engineers

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Economic advice: Sell your shares in Parker.

X-road

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X-ROAD: QUERIES (IN MILLIONS)

In 2015 939 organizations connected 1723 services

important decisions no matter what the weather does!

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What matters is CONTROL not

CONFIDENTIALITY

everybody must be able to check, who, when and for what purpose has

used his/her data

Human-readable log of medical data

Preface: Basic Principles

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Challenges and opportunities of fully digital government

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Chapter 5: Data Embassies

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No Legacy Policy

Why we started dealing with legacy?

• ICT investment management process • IT budgets comparison • Lifespan of standard products and devices • Emerging Technologies • Proportion of maintenance cost • Cyber security • Benefits of open source • Constant thrive for efficiency

• It doesn’t happen organically!

Innovation is an incremental process

Where’s the proof for NLP?

Idea: there should not be any important government IT systems that are older than 13

years!

Teaser: what should NLP include

• Mandatory – rewrites of mission critical systems

– business case based approach

– Portfolio management (IT)

– Owners (Business)

– Yearly re-evaluation (technical, business process)

• No excuses – Exceptions clearly defined

• Motivation scheme

And finally.. If everything is..

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Data Embassies

10 million Estonians?

Why stuff happens first in Estonia?

• Trust your engineers

• No-legacy

• Think Big

Learn more

• E-estonia.com

– components

• This is how digital signature works

• Read more about e-residency program

• Videos about e-estonia

• X-road

• eID and digital signature

Thank you! aet.rahe@mkm.ee